Luzzatto
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Luzzatto (Hebrew: ) or Luzzatti was a family of Italian-Jewish Talmudic scholars, whose genealogy can be traced back to the first half of the sixteenth century. According to a tradition communicated by S. D. Luzzatto, the family descends from a German Jew who immigrated into Italy from the province of Lausitz, and who was named after his native place ("Lausatia", "Lausiatus" = "Luzzatto"). The name "Luzzatti", which one branch of this family bears, can similarly be traced back to the plural form "Lausiati". The German rite is credibly reported to have been observed in the family synagogue (Scuola Luzzatto) in Venice.
The earliest member of the family of whom there is record is one Abraham Luzzatto, who lived at Safed at the beginning of the sixteenth century. His descendants may be grouped with some degree of probability in the following pedigree:
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- Benedetto (Baruch) Luzzatto
- Beniamino Luzzatto
- David Luzzatto
- Emma Luzzatto, the mother of Carlo Michelstaedter
- Ephraim Luzzatto
- Gino Luzzatto (1878-1964), Italian economical historian
- Isaia Luzzatto
- Jacob ben Isaac Luzzatto
- Laura Luzzatto, the wife of Luigi Dallapiccola
- Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (Mosè Luzzatto, Moses Hayyim Luzzatto, M.C.Luzzatto)
- Philoxène Luzzatto, or Filosseno Luzzatto, see also Hasdai ibn Shaprut
- Samuel David Luzzatto (ShaDaL)
- Simeon (Simchah) ben Isaac Luzzatto
- Simone Luzzatto
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- This article incorporates text from the public domain 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia.
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